Zennie Abraham is "Zennie62." Zennie is Chairman and CEO of Sports Business Simulations (SBS), Editor-in-Chief of SBSON.com, and Founding Executive Producer of the national show "The Blog Report With Zennie62" On The CoLoursTV Network and at http://www.zennie62.com. With the exception of undergraduate school at Texas-Arlington and his birth and childhood in Chicago, Zennie has lived in Oakland since he was 14. A Skyline High graduate, he returned for his master's degree in city planning at Berkeley. Zennie was columnist for the Montclarion, Economic Advisor to Elihu Harris, then nearly landed the 2005 Super Bowl for Oakland, losing to Jacksonville. In 2003 he co-founded SBS around an online game he made at Cal on the Oakland A's and with Dan Rascher installed a blog network, then discovered video-blogging in 2006. In 2007, YouTube and CNN discovered his video-blogging work, and he's now a frequent video contributor to CNN. He regularly travels between California and Georgia.

The legendary actor Dennis Hopper passed away last Friday and from complications due to prostate cancer. Hopper was 74 years old.

Dennis Hopper and Isabella Rossellini in Blue Velet

While some point to Easy Rider as the movie that made Hopper famous, and contained his best role, this space has a different view. Dennis Hopper’s role as the psychotic Frank Booth was just plain scary. It was this blogger’s first real introduction to the force that is Dennis Hopper and it was unforgettable.

When Blue Velvet was released in 1986, it was the must-see film of my friend at Berkeley and since I liked her, it was mine too. Frankly, for reasons having nothing to do with Blue Velvet or Dennis Hopper or the movie’s famed director David Lynch, I went to see it with her.

Wow. I’ve seen Blue Velvet 15 times since then.

If you’ve never seen Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth, we can now see a brief replay thanks to YouTube. BravoTV has Hopper’s performance as one of the 100 most scary in movie history:

Here’s another scene without the off-film commentary. It’s simply shocking and contains strong language to say the least:

Here below, Dennis Hopper tells Bob Costas how he convinced David Lynch to use another gas as a “reference” drug that Frank Booth inhaled. (Meaning Hopper didn’t actually use nitrous oxide in the movie.) Hopper explained that Lynch wanted to use Helium gas, but Dennis explained all that would do was make him “sound like Daffy Duck.”